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Sustainable construction in rural Guatemala

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2011
Waste management is a significant problem in Guatemala, as elsewhere in the developing world. The inappropriate disposal of solid waste produces pollution and places the environment and human health at risk. Environmental risk factors, including inadequate disposal of solid waste, are implicated in 25-30% of disease worldwide with children bearing a ...
Ericka K, Temple, Elizabeth, Rose
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Sustainable Construction

2022
Niels Bartels, Jannick Höper, Sebastian Theißen, Reinhard Wimmer   +3 more
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Sustainable management of construction labour

The 25th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction. ISARC-2008, 2008
The construction industry of Estonia has experienced a period of economic growth which has started to turn down for now and the output forecasts state that this recess will continue. While the availability of unskilled workforce will be growing, the lack of high quality skills in the labour market is becoming even more acute when, after joining EU ...
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Industrialisation for sustainable construction

2010
Sustainable construction (SuCo), which genesis dates in the early 1990’s, advocates the creation and operation of a quality and healthy built environment based on resource efficiency, life cycle economics and ecological principles. (Kibert, 2003). Currently the Construction Industry does not meet all these principles.
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Sustainability and sustainable construction: the African context

Building Research & Information, 2001
The scope of Africa's developmental problems and a dramatically different worldview from that of the West requires a different approach to sustainability in Africa. The context of poverty and rapid urbanization suggests that sustainable urban development should be the focus of sustainable construction in Africa.
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Sustainable procurement in construction and the realisation of the sustainable development goal (SDG) 12

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022
Salem B Abdalla, Alex Opoku, Abbas Elmualim   +2 more
exaly  

Sustainable Construction

2021
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The Critical Role of the Construction Industry in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Delivering Projects for the Common Good

Sustainability, 2021
Vian Ahmed, Alex Opoku, Kofi Agyekum
exaly  

Sustainability in construction

2022
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Sustainable construction practices in the execution of infrastructure projects

Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 2020
Debby Willar
exaly